Posted on 10/24/2025 3:16:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Rates are much higher in states that have closed nuclear and fossil-fuel generation plants.
Electricity prices are rising, and Democrats are making it a campaign issue. They blame the price hike on President Trump and congressional Republicans, who ended Biden-era renewable-energy subsidies in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But prices are actually soaring because of plant closures and natural-gas shortages in blue states, all in the name of green energy.
Energy Department data show that electricity prices in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York have risen more than 30% in the past five years compared with just 22.5% nationally. Because of climate policies, these states closed most of their coal-fired power plants and nuclear facilities over the past 15 years, making nonrenewable energy generation more difficult. In comparison, prices in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Texas and other states hampered less by green energy initiatives are rising less than the U.S. average. These states continue to be more friendly to lower-cost hydrocarbon fuels for electricity generation.
California’s electricity prices are up 58% over the past five years and have more than doubled since 2008. The state closed all but one of its coal plants and all nuclear facilities except the Diablo Canyon plant. California now has the nation’s second-highest residential electricity prices at 31.9 cents a kilowatt-hour in 2024, almost double the national price of 16.5 cents. The state’s massive investment in renewable sources, which account for more than half of California’s in-state electricity generation in 2024, has driven the price jump.
Massachusetts has a similar issue: Residential power prices are the third highest in the nation. The state produces only about half as much electricity as it did in 2010 because of closures of coal plants and the Pilgrim nuclear plant in 2019. But the state is still...
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this, in conjunction with the asinine AI-euphoria that seeks to install data centers in the middle of rural communities across the country.
The Watermelon Party:
”Green” on the outside
but RED on the inside!
IMHO the 22.5% national rise in power prices are from Dims' policies at the national level. For me the "Are they serious?!?!" moment was when Brandon issued multiple EO's in his first week in the WH to make it harder to drill for natural gas (and oil). This was after the Dims, when Brandon was VP, made regulations to force many power companies to shut down coal plants and replace them with natural gas fueled power plants. If you recall back in the Obama days the Dims promoted natural gas as "clean burning" like it'd save us from our carbon sins.
So Obama forced us to consume more natural gas, then Brandon punished us for doing so. And not one Dim tried to explain the change of heart on natural gas. We were just supposed to not notice that, while claiming that they are the arbiters of all things climate, they can't make up their minds on a simple thing like natural gas. That's when it became obvious to me that they're intentionally making it impossible to please them.
Same story...Everything goes up but wages.
And the reason why most people can no longer afford new cars, old used homes, roofs, etc..etc..
THOSE DATA CENTERS REQUIRE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF WATER & POWER.
THEY ARE NOT NEEDED.
THEY ARE BEING HYPED & PUSHED INTO RURAL AREAS....LIKE MINE
Electricity is sky high and becoming unaffordable like everything these days...I personally think a severe Recession is in the wings as low income people are really struggling and now the middle class.
“let them shiver and freeze in the dark”
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